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  1. Re:Smart Mines.. on Networked Landmines Work Together · · Score: 1

    Don't forget sanctimonious South Africa...

  2. Re:Responsibility for your own actions people! on Congress May Add Record Requirements to MySpace · · Score: 1

    grab-ass-achino

    Can I get one of those w/ soy? Perhaps in a tall?

  3. Re:No he didn't hint at anything on Sony Hints At Higher Priced Games · · Score: 1

    ...but they're not stupid.

    *cough*BetaMax, Memory Stick, ATRAC *cough*

  4. Re:That begs the question on UBC Engineers Reach Mileage Of Over 3000 MPG · · Score: 1

    When I took Math Analysis essentially pre calc. And a quick google search will show that Math returns 451,000,000 results while maths returns 47,200,000 results. My point being while the parent post was being a bit riduculous of usage, I was pointing out the fact that most people on this side of the pond don't pluralize math. Know to your word problem, I add this point, a person who teaches those subjects simultanously is not called a maths teacher, or the other part of the SAT's(not the verbal)isn't called the Maths section.

  5. Re:That begs the question on UBC Engineers Reach Mileage Of Over 3000 MPG · · Score: 1

    I'm increasingly beginning to understand the sense in linguists' saying that basic linguistics should accompany maths and sciences in schools.

    Why the hell have you pluralized math? Are they teaching fuzzy math along w/ regular math?

  6. Re:A few random thoughts on Judging The Apple 'Sweatshop' Charge · · Score: 1

    There's no law against outsourcing! Outsourcing isn't "evading US minimum wage" or OSHA
    I believe when the parent post said the law is broken they meant it wasn't working not it had been violated.
    It's not bypassing any rules.
    Well that depends on you POV, if you are a manufacturer in the US, you have a big book of rules to follow, if you manufacture in China the book and subsequent enforcement or more lax, so you are evading US labor laws by not manufacturing the goods in the US(note evading, not violating, there is a difference). Otherwise, this article is just a large amount of white liberal guilt.

  7. Re:She 'now' believes... on Rosen Believes RIAA is Wrong about P2P Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    I do believe that Nobel is remembered for his Prizes, rather than his dynamite.
    Or the mines he made for the Russians during the Crimean War. Ain't revisionist history great?

  8. Re:Have You Ever Noticed? on Rosen Believes RIAA is Wrong about P2P Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    bin Laden's oil-rich Saudi Arabian backers.
    You were saying something about ignorance? bin Laden wanted to use Saddam's invasion of Kuwait to sweep in with his Mujahideen and conquer Saudi Arabia. So I sincerely doubt that the Saudi Royal family is backing someone who wants to over throw them.

  9. Re:Philosophical descisions are thoguh to answer.. on Harvard Scientists to Clone Human Embryos · · Score: 1

    Then, as Malcolm from Jurassic Park, says: Nature finds a way to control what is being done. SO now we cure certain problems, and new ones will arise.
    Do you realize how arbitrary your distinction is? Are Humans not part of Nature? But hey if we are throwing around movie quotes to demonstrate some sort philosophic superiority, here:"Tyler from Fight Club says: Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart."

  10. Re:Hayfever on Harvard Scientists to Clone Human Embryos · · Score: 1

    Hayfever is quite a ridiculous affliction, since it's essentially an intolerance of the outside world! Surely we should be adapted to live in the world we live in? Replace hayfever w/ any of the following Tetanus, Diphtheria, Tuberculosis, etc since it's essentially an intolerance of the outside world(and the microbes in it)! And don't call me Shirley.

  11. Re:Is it worth it? on Harvard Scientists to Clone Human Embryos · · Score: 1

    Much as I hate to feed the trolls this one was too good to pass up.
    only one nation dropped the bomb. for whatever reason, it was stupid.
    Given the fact that conventional fire bombings killed more civilians what was stupid about using this bomb?
    i could puke everytime i hear OMD on radio with "enola gay" (yeah, that's the one that bombed hiroshima you nitpickers).
    Would you rather they named the song Bock's car?
    greets from japan.
    Greets from Pearl Harbor and Nanking

  12. Re: YASD on Time-Tested Gaming · · Score: 1

    In Nethack soccer, if the goalkeeper lets a shot in, he is executed on the spot.

    Actually, in Nethack soccer the goalkeeper summons Jubilex, and then the opposing team becomes deathly ill.

    In Nethack golf, either you score a hole in one on every hole, or you lose the match.

    In Nethack golf the sandtraps have iron spikes...the spikes were poisoned...the poison was deadly...you die.

  13. Re:A Cautionary Tale on Proposal to Implant RFID Chips in Immigrants · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, you missed the real problem w/ the grand parent post. Namely products, livestock, and pets aren't people(PETA be damned). You see I can buy and sell products, livestock, or pets w/out violating the 13th amendment to the constitution. However, this suggestion for immigrants just needs the right catalyst to take off. Of course it won't work or solve any real problems, but it will make some company in some congressional district very rich running and data mining the lists of chipped individuals. So perhaps a little caution is required. Btw does quoting the poem, (and thereby invoking the Holocaust)set a new Godwin record?

  14. Re:Not so funny when/if the seller commits suicide on Online Revenge · · Score: 1

    But not in a way that invokes the international laws regarding people captured by troops. No, you get detained in a magic way.

    The magic way is the occupying/invading army puts a bounty on foreign nationals/terrorists, the locals then grab you while "visiting" for a "wedding", and turn you over to the occupying force. See in this way you aren't captured by troops, but vigilantes. The citizens who turn you over(tied up in a sack no doubt) get a big fat check, and the occupying army gets to separate the wheat from the chaff.

  15. Re:Two Questions on Two-Tier Internet & The End of Freedom of Speech · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm just burnt out on technology. I've just about had it with cell phones/blackberries and all the retards running around with their Borg-like bluetooth earpieces!

    Don't you have a barn raising to get to?

  16. Re:A little over the top on Soldiers Bond with Bomb-Defusing Robots · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Not in a democracy. We could invade Saudi Arabia tomorrow if we wanted, economically it would work out. Sorry 5 dollar a gallon gasoline(that's what it would hit in the spot markets if the US even hinted at doing such a thing) would stop an invasion of Saudi Arabia faster than a million body bags in Dover. And that old adage wasn't just proved false once, pretty much every time man invents a more efficent means of killing, some misguided individual believes it to herald the end of war(see crossbow and nuclear weapons)

  17. Re:Why is this on /. on Pirates Promise Improved Version of DaVinci Code · · Score: 1

    Either way, works older than 28 years account for a very small percentage of piracy

    You mean like the entire Beatles' Catalog?

  18. Re:iran? on New Sensor Technology Looks at Molecular 'Fingerprint' · · Score: 1

    Check your Math: MOAB - weight 21,000 pounds ~ 11.5 tons Hiroshima yield = 14.5 kilatons of TNT. Since the MOAB is purely a chemical reaction, you cannot believe that the explosives of the MOAB are 1000 times more explosive than TNT! Also MOAB's don't give you a nice EMP or radioactive fallout, so they aren't as effective. A quickly build japanese nuclear device will take weeks of logistic work, time and travel, to mount a single attack which there after cannot be repeated. Right, b/c international trade will suddenly stop to this nation? If you so then that nation has lost.

  19. Re:A little over the top on Soldiers Bond with Bomb-Defusing Robots · · Score: 1

    we will lose the one thing that prevents a lot of war;
    Sorry, the thing that prevents a lot of war is costs outweigh the benefits(ie. the economics don't work out), not peoples' deaths. Though I appreciate your mickey mouse belief that enough deaths will mean an end to war. A common thought after the proliferation of the crossbow, machine gun, and nuclear weapons. Sorry, history hasn't proven that thesis true. As for this point Bin Ladens main personal beef was the presence of US troops on Saudi soil., sorry Bin Laden was mad that US. troops c-blocked his Mujahideen fighters from taking over Saudi Arabia during Desert storm. He(Bin Laden) wants to control the holy land. We(the US) just happened to be in the way.

  20. Re:iran? on New Sensor Technology Looks at Molecular 'Fingerprint' · · Score: 1

    A delivery method is much harder.
    They're called ships, and they float on the ocean, or if attacking a land locked country use an airplane.

  21. Re:Know what would be funny? on Lenovo Banned by U.S. State Department · · Score: 1

    Where do you think WalMart gets most of their stuff from?
    Where do you think WalMart sells most of its stuff? ...demanding that the US paid its debt to China.


    Sure they could do that, and watch as the US govt. says no, then the value of all those Treasury notes goes up in smoke. And then you will get a world wide depression which would make the 1930's look like a church picnic.

  22. Re:Conspiracy Theorists paid by the govt? on US Releasing 9/11 Flight 77 Pentagon Crash Tape · · Score: 1

    You play the bad guy, I play the good guy
    Years before I get to be president? Or have you forgotten the embassy bombings?
    Meanwhile you keep threatening the west with more attacks to keep the public in fear.
    So what about the London, and Spain bombings?
    Except one annoying reporter
    you misspelled demagogue.

  23. Re:Buncha crap on Self-Serve Car Rental · · Score: 1

    I absolutely fucking hate the stupid self serve checkouts at grocery store.

    You and your 80 yr old grandmother who wants to discover these new fangled 'puters, should stay away from self checkout then. As a former grocery store employee, I find them easy to use 90% of the time, and I enjoy checking out while the lady w/ 20 items in the 15 items or less lane paying w/ a check is holding everybody else up.

  24. Re:Put down that comic and go to church. on Captain America vs. The Patriot Act? · · Score: 1

    "If you wanna kiss the sky better learn how to kneel."

  25. Re:One word: on Are National ID Cards a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's quite a non sequitor there, perhaps if the people had a right to keep and bear arms the coup might not have been quite so successful. So please find some other outlet to channel your survivor's guilt.